By Wohlgemuth H.B. No. 507
76R2380 SMJ-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the assessment of court costs for certain offenses to
1-3 finance child health and safety programs in municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 102.014(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A person convicted of an offense under Subtitle C, Title
1-8 7, Transportation Code, when the offense occurs within a school
1-9 crossing zone as defined by Section 541.302 of that code, shall pay
1-10 as court costs $25 in addition to other taxable court costs. A
1-11 person convicted of an offense under Section 545.066,
1-12 Transportation Code, shall pay as court costs $25 in addition to
1-13 other taxable court costs. The additional court costs under this
1-14 subsection shall be collected in the same manner that other fines
1-15 and taxable court costs in the case are collected and shall be
1-16 assessed only in a municipality [with a population of 400,000 or
1-17 more].
1-18 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-19 to the assessment of court costs for a conviction, as determined
1-20 under Article 102.014(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, that takes
1-21 place on or after the effective date of this Act, without regard to
1-22 whether the behavior that is the basis for the conviction takes
1-23 place before, on, or after that date.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.